Quiverfull : inside the Christian patriarchy movement

by: Joyce, Kathryn, 1979-

Publication date: 2009

Topics: Patriarchy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Women in fundamentalist churches -- History, Women in fundamentalist churches

Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Digitizing sponsor: The Arcadia Fund

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

xiv, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Provides an intimate view of the patriarchy movement. They believe the "biblical" woman wears modest, feminine dress and avoids not only sex but also dating before marriage. She doesn't speak in church, or try to have authority over men. She is a submissive wife who bolsters her husband in his role as spiritual and earthly leader of the family

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references and index

pt. 1. Wives. Massachusetts hope -- The church comes home -- The men who would be kings -- The new reformation -- Titus 2 : submission and war -- Titus 2 in Tennessee -- No greater joy -- The small world of Vision Forum -- Life in the garden -- pt. 2. Mothers. Be fruitful and multiply -- The Bible and birth control -- Trust and obey -- Blessed arrows -- The natural family -- Return to patriarchy -- Godly seeds -- Demographic winter -- Exiting the movement -- pt. 3. Daughters. Victory through daughters